Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay nearly $150 million over false election claims
By TOI Desk Report
December 16, 2023
Update on : December 16, 2023
President Donald Trump’s campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay nearly $150 million to two Georgia election workers over false claims they tampered with votes in 2020.
A Washington, DC, jury gave the order on Friday after a four-day trial to determine the penalty, CNN and BBC reported.
During the trial, an eight-person jury heard from the workers — Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman — about how 2020 election conspiracies spread by Giuliani turned their lives upside down.
Following the order, Rudy Giuliani, a longtime associate of former President Donald Trump, must pay the fine to the two women for the harm caused by defamatory statements he made about them following the 2020 election.
Of them, Ruby Freeman was awarded $16,171,000 for defamation and $20 million for emotional distress while Freeman’s daughter Shaye Moss was awarded $16,998,000 for defamation and $20 million for emotional distress.
Both plaintiffs also were awarded $75 million in punitive damages.
After leaving the courtroom, the former New York mayor vowed to appeal.
After the proceedings ended, Freeman and Moss hugged each other tightly and said outside the courthouse “Today is a good day. I am thankful as a jury held Rudy Giuliani accountable for what he did to us [ Me and my daughter].”
After voting ended in 2020, Giuliani shared a video from an absentee ballot counting facility in Fulton County.
In the video, the Trump assistant falsely claimed showed the two women cheating and scanning ballots multiple times to benefit Joe Biden.
The Georgia secretary of state’s investigation found the accusations against Moss and Freeman to be “false and unsubstantiated.”
In August, District Judge Beryl Howell found Giuliani liable for defamation and Giuliani conceded as part of the proceedings that his statements about Moss and Freeman were false.
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